Unique tangent behavior for 1-dimensional stationary varifolds (Q2409925): Difference between revisions

Stationary varifolds are weak solutions for Plateau's problem in the setting of measures, defined as critical points of measure while deforming along any vector field. Note that minimal surfaces, minimal sets (in the sense of Almgren or Reifenberg), size minimizing integral currents, etc., are all stationary varifolds. A number of partial results on uniqueness of tangent behaviour are known: (i) Any \(1\)-dimensional stationary varifold with a uniform lower density bound (in particular they are rectifiable) in any Riemannian manifold admits an unique tangent varifold at every point; (ii) In \({\mathbb R}^2\), any stationary \(1\)-varifold admits an unique tangent behaviour at every point. (iii) A counterexample for the non regular case: there exists a stationary \(2\)-rectifiable varifold (but without lower density bounds, hence the support of the varifold is \(3\)-dimensional) which admits more than one tangent at a point with positive density; While the picture for a general answer to arbitrary dimensional and codimensional cases is still obscure, the author proves that, without any assumption on lower density bound or codimension, any \(1\)-dimensional stationary varifold on any Riemannian manifold admits an unique tangent behaviour everywhere.